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Bob Dylan Quotes about Art

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The purpose of art is to stop time.

The purpose of art is to stop time.

Life, Time, Art

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

Art, Eye, Media

Song: Abandoned Love, Album: Biograph

The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.

Art, Blow, Media

Song: Restless Farewell, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.

Faith, Art, Inspiration

In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.

Art, Divorce, Past

Source: www.thedailybeast.com

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

Art, Inspire, Purpose

Interview with Jonathan Cott, www.rollingstone.com. January 26, 1978.

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

Art, Jobs, Self

Song: Trouble in Mind

You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom.

Art, Media, Entertainment

Song: Idiot Wind, Album: Blood on the Tracks, 1975

Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

Art, Media, Entertainment

Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you.

Art, Media, People

Song: Like A Rolling Stone

Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.

Art, Media, Doing Your Own Thing

Song: Gonna Change My Way of Thinking, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

Art, Media, Entertainment

Song: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

Too much information about nothing.

Art, Media, Too Much Information

Song: Someone's Got A Hold Of My Heart

I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.

Art, Thinking, Sitting Down

Song: Thunder On The Mountain, Album: Modern Times, 2006

Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

Art, Media, Bed

The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.

Art, Media, Tonight

Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.

Art, Media, Jewels

Song: Visions Of Johanna, Album: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem.

Art, Media, Age

Song: Dirge, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.

Art, Kindness, Media

Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

Art, Media, Care

Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

Art, Media, Entertainment

Song: Dignity

Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind of thing before, but yes I think it can be very easily done.

Art, War, Thinking

Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.

Beautiful, Art, Moving

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

Art, Illusion, Art Is

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